AH&L Issue

 

 

Thrilled this painting, Orange Mallow - 36x60, was included in the beautiful pages of the February 2011 issue of Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles magazine via the fabulous master bath created by Capella Kincheloe who invited me to do a painting for the space. 

(photography Erica George Dines for Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles magazine)

 



A Painting by the late Victor Denfrey Steele - A Christmas Wish

Victor Denfrey Steele

May joy and peace be yours and surround you and those you love this Christmas. 

Oil painting by my late father,  Victor Denfrey Steele

Tina Steele Lindsey - Secret Garden

Secret Garden - Tina Steele Lindsey

When I visited the Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Christmas House a red painting was hanging in one of the beautiful rooms which reminded me of an older painting of mine, Secret Garden (ABOVE)   Look closely there really is a secret garden in this painting!  Due to crowds and having to keep moving I am at a loss to recall which room it was in, or know who the fine artist is that created it, but it was lovely, wish I had a photo to show you. 

Just a note that the last day of the Christmas House is tomorrow, Sunday the 12th, so if you haven't made it yet, make plans to attend, a lot of wonderful art pieces are hanging everywhere, so enjoy! I would love to hear from anyone who has been and what your thoughts were, and if you met Capella, Niki, or any of the other fabulously gifted designers! SOLD

Tina Steele Lindsey on A Journey Beyond

Journey
24x48 on stainless steel

Tina Steele Lindsey's Lost In Translation - Close-up

This is actually a 3x3 section of a larger painting (36x60) I have completely finished painting, I will post the entire painting later. 

Let's talk abstraction.  I am a fairly traditionalist artist, so when it comes to abstraction a more traditional approach does have its disadvantages.  Unlike mixed media or collage I do not have much to work with other than paint and a brush.  Painting this way is very basic and raw, moving paint around on a surface essentially waiting to see what comes forward that you can work with. 
All artists work differently, and I find I am NOT able to work abstraction out ahead of time on paper and try to reproduce. I worked Nocturne out on a small board, initially, and thankfully the larger painting was better working larger, and that was the only time.  Simply put, what comes spontaneously for me cannot be duplicated, something will be lost in translation. 
Here's hoping life is treating you well.  Until later ~

Camila, Claire, Amy, HGTV

 

Thanks to Camila Pavone, designer Claire Watkins, and the photography of the amazing Amy Herr, this painting is now on the HGTV website Combine Design Styles Like A Pro Use Abstract Art to Offset Classic Furniture.   We all know to be true, fine art abstraction is not just for contemporary spaces!

Tina Steele Lindsey - Courage (abstraction on reclaimed stainless steel)

There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.   To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oil on acrylic, on reclaimed stainless steel.

Train - Drops of Jupiter was my musical accompaniment during this particular painting.

Courage

Tina Steele Lindsey - For Drew W. (abstraction on reclaimed stainless steel)

There are always two voices sounding in our ears,

the voice of fear and the voice of confidence.

One is the clamor of the senses,

the other is the whispering of the higher self.

~ Charles B. Newcomb

(Building from the bottom up, from clamor to a higher state of well being.

Here you go, Drew, a little more masculine as you like it.)

Thank You Style Curator

Thank you to wonderful Style Curator for including my art in your fun August 16th The Love List post! I am a new reader of this terrific blog on travel, art, design and fashion, you will love it, too! For further information on Style Curator and the other items listed, click the August 16th link! Thank you so much!

A Serendipitous Moment

My husband returned from a meeting this afternoon carrying a magazine. I knew something was up, he's not a magazine kind of guy. He began flipping the pages, stopped, and passed the magazine to me. To my surprise there was a photo at the top of the page. I laughed.  It was my photo, however this page is

is from a cover story, Expanding the Footprint, by Tyler Montgomery, on fitness mogul Michael Olander, in May 2010 edition of Club Solutions magazine. What is serendipitous is that I had just exchanged emails this morning with the designer I collaborated with a couple years ago on commissioned art pieces for this particular project, Maike Caudle.  What a nice surprise to see this.

Capella Kincheloe - A Capella Respite

From a Capella Kincheloe photo shoot which I touched upon last week in my post Atlanta is A-Buzz

This amazingly tranquil space is a wondrous respite from the demands of the outside world; calming, inviting in every sense of the word. I think we all need a space like this!

Capella, thank you, it was such an honor to have an abstract a part of your shoot.

To learn more about Capella, visit her website and design blog A Curated Lifestyle, as well as check out this post in the Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles blog.

Capella, thank you for being a great addition to the design community in Atlanta!